>>>>> Dmichael Parrish via R-devel >>>>> on Tue, 18 May 2021 02:05:04 +0000 (UTC) writes:
> Hello, Kindly revise the documentation for `mode` to > reflect foo <- function () {} typeof(foo) # [1] "closure" > mode(foo)# [1] "function" > `help(mode)` states: Modes have the same set of names as > types (see typeof) except that > types "integer" and "double" are returned as > "numeric". > types "special" and "builtin" are returned as > "function". > type "symbol" is called mode "name". > type "language" is returned as "(" or "call". Indeed, that help file is missing "closure", ... amazingly, for all the history of R (of 25+ years). Thank you! I've already fixed this in the sources' trunk (svn rev 80321) a minute ago; of course this will not make it anymore into R 4.1.0 but in its "patched" version, and then 4.1.1 and one. With thankful regards, Martin -- Martin Maechler ETH Zurich and R Core team > I am presently reading `help(mode)` on: > write.dcf(R.Version()) # platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32 # > arch: x86_64 # os: mingw32 # system: x86_64, mingw32 # > status: # major: 4 # minor: 0.3 # year: 2020 # month: 10 # > day: 10 # svn rev: 79318 # language: R # version.string: R > version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10) # nickname: Bunny-Wunnies Freak > Out > __________ Hmo < 0.1 L tanh kd ---Miche, 1951 / I have > placed the sand for the bound of the sea... and though the > waves thereof toss themselves... they cannot pass over it > ---YHWH, ca. 600 B.C. (Jer. 5:22) ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel